Lee Iacocca
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.”
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Nancy Mitford
“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.”
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Sigourney
"It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity."
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Julie B. Beck
"Strong families are not an accident…They take thought and intention and preparation and skill."
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O. A. Battista
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”
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Ephesians 4:32
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
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Wayne Dyer
“As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.”
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Zohar
“Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation.”

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Milton R. Saperstein
“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.”
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Brad Henry
“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
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Gail Lumet Buckley
“Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.”
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Sidonie Gruenberg
“Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.”
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Auguste Napier
“In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair.”
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Eva Burrows
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
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Elizabeth II
“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
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George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
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Margaret Mead
“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”
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Robert Brault
“The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.”
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Author Unknown
“Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble it’s best to seek out a relative's open arms.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.”
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Jane Howard
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
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Robert Brault
“In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
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Victor L. Brown
“Satan’s ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war.”
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Kendall Hailey
“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.”
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George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
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Marge Kennedy
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.”
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Agatha Christie
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
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Winston Churchill
“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”
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William Saroyan
“Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them and with them.”
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Eva Burrows
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”
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Wayne Dyer
“By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.”
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Walt Streightiff
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”
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Victor L. Brown
"Satan's ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war."
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Robert L. Simpson
"If you spend all your days and save the whole world but lose your own family, you will be counted as an unprofitable servant."
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Barbara Bush
"Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first."
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Nehru
"Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it."
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Paul Gallico
"When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.."
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Author Unknown
“One happy fun loving saint who is fun to be around can do more for the church than 10 long face saints.”
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Barbara Bush
"Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house"
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems."
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Paula Poundstone
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.”
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Susan D. Anderson
“Remember, no matter how many candles you blow out this year, there's one gal who will always think of you as young, strong and handsome - your mother.”
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Marcelene Cox
“Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.”
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P. O'Brien
“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
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Robert Orben
“I don't want to say anything about my kids…but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!”
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Jim Bishop
“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”
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Henri Amiel
“Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.”
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Author Unknown
“One way Satan gets to us is to fill our life with good things to the exclusion of the essential things.”
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N. Eldon Tanner
“Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth from the principles as taught in the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
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Richard L. Evans
“Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
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Stephanie Marston
“The real question isn't whether or not you love your kids, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”
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Arnold Bennett
“The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.”
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Trey Parker
“I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.”
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Jim Rohn
“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.”
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Lewis Mumford
“The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.”
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Black Elk
“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”
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Shirley Gould
"When family members gather to make important decisions, to recognize the achievements of members of the family, to discipline, or to plan events, that is family council."
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Author Unknown
"A people which take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, are not likely to achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants."
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Letitia Landon
"I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature."
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Shirley Abbott
“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.”
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Psalms 127:4-5
“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us."
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Elbert Hubbard
“No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
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Deuteronomy 24:5
“When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.”
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Anais Nin
“I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”
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Virginia Satir
“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”
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Mother Teresa
“Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.”
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R. D. Laing
“Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.”
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Pablo Casals
“What do we teach our children?...We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique…You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.”
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Stephanie Marston
“Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hearts every day.”
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Paul Pearshall
“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.”
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Frank Smith
“It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.”
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David O. McKay
“No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.”
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Mark Twain
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
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Alberta Siegel
"Every civilization is only 20 years away from barbarism. For 20 years is all we have to accomplish the task of civilizing the infants . . . who know nothing of our language, our culture, our religion, our values, or our customs of interpersonal relations."
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Goethe

"A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself."
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L. Tom Perry
“Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?”
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Preston Nibley
"Honor your fathers and your mothers. Honor the names that you bear, because some day you will have the privilege and the obligation of reporting to them..what you have done with their name."
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Author Unknown
"By building family pride our families can become better protected by the temptations we are faced with. Family pride constantly reminds us of who we are and that each member of the family is counting on the other to honor the name which we bear."
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Marianne E. Neifert
“The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.”
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Marge Kennedy
“In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.”
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Rudolf Dreikurs
"When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be
much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home
for all."
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Thomas Moore
“Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.”
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Erma Bombeck
“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”
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William Kelly
“The sociologists tell us of the abdication of the father from his natural position as head of the family, of the growing divorce rate, of the debilitating effects of television upon family unity. The psychologists tell us about "Momism," the permissive home, the unwillingness of the American male to face life, and again about the debilitating effect of television.”
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Conrad Hyers
“Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.”
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Arthur Gordon
“When I was around thirteen and my brother was ten, Father promised to take us to the circus. But at lunch there was a phone call. Some urgent business required his attention downtown. My brother and I braced ourselves for the disappointment. Then we heard him say, ‘No, I won’t be down. I will have to wait.” When he came back to the table, Mother smiled and said, ‘The circus keeps coming back, you know.’ ‘I know,’ said Father, ‘but childhood doesn’t.”
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